It’s 1995 and Waterworld is meant to be blockbuster of the year. But everyone’s talking about it for all the wrong reasons.

Before filming even begins, director Kevin Reynolds is warned not to shoot on the open ocean. He decides to do it anyway — with unfolding consequences that will cost him dearly.

We’re revisiting one of Hollywood’s most infamously chaotic movie sets, and one of its most enduring cautionary tales.

What went wrong on the set of Waterworld to make it the most expensive movie ever made at the time? Why did filming on the Pacific Ocean create a storm behind the scenes? And what were the personal stakes of the legendary falling-out between director Kevin Reynolds and star Kevin Costner?

Does Waterworld really deserve its reputation as an epic Hollywood fail?

To help us navigate the choppy waters of 90s Hollywood filmmaking, Michelle is joined by movie expert Simon Brew

So settle in for a big-screen-worthy adventure, where things are about to get very wet and very wild.

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It’s 1912, and on the Terra Nova British Antarctic Expedition, scientist and explorer George Murray Levick and five other men are marooned on what they’ll come to call ‘Inexpressible Island’.

Their ship has failed to return. The Antarctic winter is closing in — seven months of brutal cold and constant darkness.

With time running out, the men must build a tiny ice cave, hunt seals and penguins for food, and somehow survive the most hostile environment on Earth.

They’ll battle hunger, illness and exposure. And if they make it through the winter, they face a gruelling journey back to base, to discover what has happened to the rest of Captain Scott’s expedition.

They’ll need every ounce of physical and mental strength they possess to have a hope in hell of surviving.

And if they do make it… what changed world will they emerge into?

Michelle is joined by expert Douglas Russell from the Natural History Museum. So hunker down for Part 2 of this little-known story from Captain Scott’s expedition and the Age of Heroic Antarctic Exploration.

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You may have heard of Captain Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. But do you know about the other gripping survival stories on history's most infamous Antarctic Expedition?

Scientist and explorer George Murray Levick makes discoveries about Adélie penguins’ sex lives that shock him and could scandalise Edwardian British sensibilities.

But will Levick even live to share his story? When he and five other men are marooned on ‘Inexpressible Island’, they must summon all their mental and physical strength to face the most brutal winter on Earth alone.

Michelle is joined by expert Douglas Russell from the Natural History Museum for an epic true tale of sex, death and survival in this remarkable alternative story from the infamous Terra Nova Expedition.

This is Part 1 of a two-part tale. Part 2 is coming soon!

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Discover London's amazing Natural History Museum:

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